Competing interests: The authors declared no competing interests. Cite this: Typical Progression of Myoclonic Epilepsy of the Lafora Type: A Case Report - Medscape - Feb 01, 2008.

PMEs are a group of inherited neurodegenerative disorders characterized by progressively worsening myoclonus and epilepsy, early dementia, and death ( Table 1 ). LD is the principal teenage-onset PME.

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She sat quietly at his feet, refused to budge, and softly placed her paw on his leg. It wasn’t a trick. It wasn’t prompted.

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Scientific studies have found both trained and untrained pet dogs can detect seizures, mainly using their sense of smell.

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First described 60 years ago, chronic myoclonus following cerebral anoxia is now known as Lance-Adams syndrome. This is a severe disorder whose mechanisms were, until now, poorly understood. Geoffroy ...

Background 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11.2DS) is considered as the genetic model of schizophrenia. However, its polymorphic nature has led researchers to further investigate its neuropsychiatric ...

Myoclonic astatic seizures: This is a seizure type that does not commonly occur in other types of epilepsy besides Doose syndrome. This type of seizure begins as a myoclonic seizure and is then ...